Monday, May 02, 2011

I Want To Make Peace With Those Guys!

Hamas, now an official part of the Palestinian Authority – supported by U.S. tax dollars, European Union tax dollars, and multiple United Nations support and relief programs put out this official statement on the death of Osama bin Lauden…

GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Monday condemned the killing by U.S. forces of Osama bin Laden and mourned him as an "Arab holy warrior."

"We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood," Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, told reporters.

Though he noted doctrinal differences between bin Laden's al Qaeda and Hamas, Haniyeh said: "We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs."

As is always said, you make peace with your enemies not with your friends. Of course, homicidal maniacal enemies may be just a bit harder to make peace with. Alternatively you can put a bullet between their eyes and dump their bodies in the sea.

The president of the United States personally orders the latter but demands the Jews do the former.

Dear Mr. President, congratulations on a job well done (though it would be nice if YOU would give a little more credit both to the men who found him, planned the operation and risked their lives performing it, as well as to G-d for giving you the opportunity to execute worldly justice). Perhaps you might offer Israel the opportunity to do the same with equally as evil people who murder Jewish children in school buses with anti-tank missiles instead of demand Israel make peace with them.

Tell you what Mr. President. When you offer Al Qaeda and the Taliban to open official embassies in Washington DC and invite them to a state dinner, we’ll make peace with Hamas.

Akiva, pleeeeeaaaaasssseeee. Do you actually think the teleprompter was telling the truth. It was just too clean, too convenient.

Don't you think that the CIA boogy man would have been put on parade if they actually did get him, like Saddam was. It is well known he was on dialysis and don't think for a second, if he was alive that the gov't just did not know where he is.

The only photo confirming his death available to date is fake. The MSN published Osama’s earlier photo which is an exact copy of his postmortem image. Now, the death photo is unofficial – but why haven’t the US government publish a credible photo on its own?

The official line has it that the commandos identified Osama by multiple means, including some hinted-at high-techies like facial recognition. Wait, facial recognition does not work reliably with such a heavy beard.

Hasty ‘burial at sea’ is the worst way to do a PR. It made every sense to show the corpse to journalists instead of creating Osama-is-alive myth.

The story of Osama’s pursuit, as told by the government, is incredible. Supposedly Obama procrastinated since February before giving the order to assassinate bin Laden. The CIA often acts in Pakistan on flimsy evidence targeting wrong people, so just to be on the safe side they would have acted against Osama’s likely hideout quickly.

Sending two US helicopters in a Pakistani garrison town is a strange idea. Not only tens of thousands people there are armed, but there must be basic anti-aircraft weapons. Sending loud choppers in the middle of the night would be absurd, warning inhabitants and bin Ladens alike. Such operations are done with ground teams or bombs/missiles.

Osama supposedly lived for six years in a heavily populated area in a country where everyone knows his face. Should we believe that he had never left his villa? Or that the neighbors weren’t flabbergasted by such a secluded nuovo riche?

Osama lived in the Pakistani garrison town through the years when he had pretty bad relations with Gen.Musharaff. The general well-controlled Pakistani intelligence service, and it is highly unlikely that the ISI protected the man who called and worked to oust Musharaff.

Overall, the impression is that Osama’s death is Obama’s PR trick. And if we are to believe the story, then Osama’s assassination is of little significance: he lived extremely secluded life away from the centers of terrorist planning. Terrorist groups of Al Qaeda brand will continue operating without him.

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